Quote: PzLdr wrote in post #2

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Another win for the Luddites.

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Not necessarily; the luddites may have a good point.

Don't forget the infestation of crony capitalism in our country and the fourth branch of government. The EPA, CDC, FDA, have had their mandates corrupted by politics.

I have spent a lot of time researching how the EPA, FDA, and CDC joined up to remove asthma inhalers using CFC propellants from the market based upon 'global warming' / 'climate change' / the ozone layer.

The timing of the ban coincided with the loss of a patent for inexpensive method of producing medical freon by DuPont. The replacement inhalers was purely a political decision that foisted an inferior product off on the public and protected profits for big international chemical and pharma.

The replacement HFA propellants were tested on some rabbits, a handful of people with very mild asthma, and that was that. No testing was performed on a large number of people, people with serve, chronic asthma, on people with emphysema or any of the other respiratory diseases that benefit from asthma inhalers, cycstic fibrosis, lung cancer asbestosis, etc. The year following the removal of old CFC emergency inhalers from the market showed a statistical increase in deaths from asthma. This inconvenient fact was not studied but pushed the memory hole.

Much of the same can be said for GMO foods.

GMO foods are not as they are advertized the result of improved methods of hybridization, but the result of introducing a gene with a desired trait from another plant, an animal, a bacteria or a virus to a food plant. The desired trait can be resistance to drought or Roundup, or turning the plant into a roundup factory.

Like many modern medications, GMO's have been declared safe based upon the mantra harm from them has not been proven. Of course what you are not told is that no harm is [i]assumed not tested for/i] just like with the replacement of the CFC inhalers.

It is telling that Monsanto spends mega bucks preventing the labeling o GMO foods and products containing GMO foods. Monsanto does not want the market to be given a choice.